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„Ich habe die See zu lange gekannt, um an ihren Respekt für Anständigkeit zu glauben.“
Joseph Conrad buch Taifun
Taifun <br class="br">"And yet I have known the sea too long to believe in its respect for decency. An elemental force is ruthlessly frank." - Typhoon (1902) books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=srDHBuZRreEC&pg=PA156&dq=respect
Joseph Conrad: Zitate auf Englisch
“It echoed loudly within him because he was hollow at the core.”
Joseph Conrad buch Herz der Finsternis
Quelle: Heart of Darkness
“Perhaps life is just that… a dream and a fear.”
Joseph Conrad buch Under Western Eyes
Pt. IV, ch. 2
Under Western Eyes (1911)
“Like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker.”
Joseph Conrad buch Herz der Finsternis
Quelle: Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad buch Herz der Finsternis
Quelle: Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad buch Herz der Finsternis
Quelle: Heart of Darkness
“He hated all this, and somehow he couldn't get away.”
Joseph Conrad buch Herz der Finsternis
Quelle: Heart of Darkness
“Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.”
Joseph Conrad buch Under Western Eyes
Pt. I
Quelle: Under Western Eyes (1911)
Kontext: Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. I have been for many years a teacher of languages. It is an occupation which at length becomes fatal to whatever share of imagination, observation, and insight an ordinary person may be heir to. To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.
“Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.”
Variante: Gossip is what no one claims to like – but everybody enjoys.
Joseph Conrad buch Herz der Finsternis
Quelle: Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad buch Herz der Finsternis
Quelle: Heart of Darkness
“One can't live with one's finger everlastingly on one's pulse.”
Joseph Conrad buch Herz der Finsternis
Quelle: Heart of Darkness
“And this also," said Marlow suddenly, "has been one of the dark places of the earth.”
Joseph Conrad buch Herz der Finsternis
Quelle: Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad buch Herz der Finsternis
Quelle: Heart of Darkness
“I have a voice, too, and for good or evil mine is the speech that cannot be silenced”
Joseph Conrad buch Herz der Finsternis
Quelle: Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad buch Herz der Finsternis
Quelle: Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad buch Under Western Eyes
Pt. I, ch. 2
Under Western Eyes (1911)
Joseph Conrad buch Herz der Finsternis
Quelle: Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad buch Herz der Finsternis
Quelle: Heart of Darkness
